The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) yesterday revealed its latest findings about the state of pre-recorded media.
80 to 90 per cent of paid videogame software acquisitions in 2009 were for disc or cartridge-based products, the outfit’s new survey claimed.
‘The D2 report: discs & digital – the business of Home entertainment retailing’ proved confident in proclaiming the robust health of physical media, despite the rise of digital distribution ? both legal and illegal.
“While there has been a great deal of focus recently on the slippage of revenues in the DVD market, the untold story is that consumers’ embrace of home entertainment remains very strong and packaged media is the preferred delivery instrument,” stated Bo Andersen, EMA boss.
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Apple’s range of IOS devices – including the new iPhone 4 and iPad – have fallen prey to a new web-based jailbreak. Users need only visit a special URL via their handheld’s browser to activate the hack.
Previous jailbreaks have been a far more complicated procedure, requiring the installation of custom software on their PC or Mac. The new, easier “2.0″ jailbreak is expected to dramatically increase the number of users who elect to bypass Apple’s installation and network limitations.
Hacker collective iPhone Dev Team are behind both past jailbreaks, and the new browser-based bypass.
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Hearts of Iron II, one of Paradox Interactive’s seminal high strategy titles set in World War II, has been used by the University of California, Los Angeles, in its Political Science course.
The game, introduced to the academic world by student facilitator Einar Engvig, has been used in order to equip students with a better grasp of the Theory of Tripolarity and the general geopolitics of the world in the build up to WWII.
During the course the students were introduced to the game, before being split into teams of two and tasked with taking on an assigned nation, with those teams then attempting to play to their own objectives, either through aggression or diplomacy.
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Japanese publisher SEGA’s parent company has enjoyed a dramatically better first financial quarter than 2009, hauling in an operating income of ¥14,951 /3 million for April to June 2010.
For the same period last year, SEGA Sammy Holdings suffered an operating loss of ¥7820 / .5 million. Net sales totalled ¥91,340 / 58 million, up 51.1 per cent on last year’s ¥60,641 / 2 million.
While the company is generally in better health than 2009, its consumer business remains at an operating loss of ¥636 / .4 million. That said, it is a significant recovery from last year’s first quarter loss of ¥4500 / million.
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Sony’s PSP has remained on top for a second week in Japan’s hardware charts, but the combined DS range is currently 140,000 units ahead of the PS range for 2010 to date.
As always, the multiple DS SKUs add up to a greater weekly total than the PSP combined with its increasingly ailing media-free sibling, the PSPgo. The Go’s take-up has been sliced in half since the previous week, opening just 831 wallets during the week ending July 25.
Aside from the Go’s ill-fortune, the chart is more or less unchanged from last week:
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Distributor Koch Media has refuted accusations that it played a part in this week’s downfall of Dutch publisher PlayLogic.
PlayLogic filed for the preliminary stages of receivership on Wednesday, alleging that part of the reason for this was an unpaid debt of ?1.7 million owed to it by Koch – and pledging to take the dispute to court.
However, Koch CEO Dr. Klemens Kundratitz has refuted the debt entirely, also claiming that legal action had yet to ensue.
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Distributor Koch Media has refuted accusations that it played a part in this week’s downfall of Dutch publisher PlayLogic.
PlayLogic filed for the preliminary stages of receivership on Wednesday, alleging that part of the reason for this was an unpaid debt of ?1.7 million owed to it by Koch – and pledging to take the dispute to court.
However, Koch CEO Dr. Klemens Kundratitz has refuted the debt entirely, also claiming that legal action had yet to ensue.
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Distributor Koch Media has refuted accusations that it played a part in this week’s downfall of Dutch publisher PlayLogic.
PlayLogic filed for the preliminary stages of receivership on Wednesday, alleging that part of the reason for this was an unpaid debt of ?1.7 million owed to it by Koch – and pledging to take the dispute to court.
However, Koch CEO Dr. Klemens Kundratitz has refuted the debt entirely, also claiming that legal action had yet to ensue.
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